Time had declared the "Hungarian Freedom Fighter" its 1956 Man of the Year Elvis Presley hawked donations for refugees on The Ed Sullivan Show. Eisenhower's somber message to Congress on January 10, 1957, two months after the dramatic and bloody Soviet putdown of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, an event seared into the memory of the Americans who lived through it.
history being long enough, the above description fits another State of the Union address: Dwight D. The United States, unusually, is not a central protagonist in this military conflict, to the disappointment of both the ragtag rebels and some overenthusiastic hawks back home. Hundreds of thousands of desperate refugees have already poured out to the West, while the young men back home fashion Molotov cocktails to hurl at tanks. His country sits transfixed by a war more than 4,500 miles to the east, rooting openly in solidarity for the hopelessly outgunned underdogs fighting bravely for their homeland against a ruthless invader from Moscow. Or they come from preparedness efforts - such as backyard bomb shelters and yellow-and-black Fallout Shelter signs.When President Joe Biden ambles to the podium at a joint session of Congress Tuesday night, he will be at an odd place for an American president. Or they come from fictional accounts - such as the 1957 novel On the Beach by Nevil Shute or the 1983 made-for-TV movie The Day After. Sometimes our Nuclear Moments come from actual events - such as Hiroshima or Chernobyl. Nearly everyone who replied carries a nuclear image. We wanted to examine certain Nuclear Moments in recent world history that shocked our consciousness.
We received more than 3,700 replies, including some who chastised us for fear mongering and emphasizing disaster. Knowing that we have lived with these potential consequences for more than 60 years, we posed this query to NPR followers on Facebook: We want to know the image that first forced you - as a child - to think about the possibility of nuclear annihilation. It's great as long as it works right, but you can't engineer away every possible calamity." "But the trouble with nuclear power is that the potential consequences are so terrible.
The Fukushima disaster "seems like a fairly random accident," says Reid Detchon of Energy Future Coalition, a nonpartisan public policy group. Officials check the level of radiation on a woman in Fukushima prefecture.
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